TOKYO, Sept 10 — Crisis-hit Japanese automaker Nissan hopes the resignation of its embattled chief executive will help turn the page on the tumult unleashed by the arrest of former chief Carlos Ghos...

KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court hearing the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) trial involving Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak here today was informed that the former prime minister had received RM19,846.5...

SHAH ALAM, August 9 — Selangor Mentri Besar Amirudin Shari said the Bill allowing for unilateral religious conversion of minors could still be tabled at the next state legislative assembly sitting, ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 8 — The outpouring of support for Selangor Speaker Ng Suee Lim continues with the state chapter of DAP rallying around its lawmaker under fire over a proposed Bill allowing for uni...

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KOTA KINABALU: An opposition lawmaker told the august House yesterday that the State Government should put on hold the proposed construction of a multi-billion rail link from Kota Kinabalu t...

HONG KONG (July 31): House price in Hong Kong has finally taken a dip after holding up for six months amidst the external year-long trade war between US and China, as well as internal mass street demo...

PETALING JAYA: De facto law minister Datuk Liew Vui Keong should clear the air over his statement about the luxury watch owned by the political secretary to the Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Minister, says Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong.

PETALING JAYA: Based on Dewan Negara’s Hansard, the de facto law minister Datuk Liew Vui Keong was not “misquoted” when he told the House the corruption case involving a minister’s political secretary was closed, says MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong.

PETALING JAYA: Based on Dewan Negara’s Hansard, the de facto law minister Datuk Liew Vui Keong was not “misquoted” when he told the House the corruption case involving a minister's political secretary was closed, says MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong.

KUCHING: The Federal Court has granted the Sarawak state legislative assembly’s application for leave to appeal against the decision of the High Court and the Court of Appeal on the disqualification of Pujut assemblyman Dr Ting Tiong Choon due to his dual citizenship.

KUCHING: The Federal Court today granted the Sarawak state legislative assembly’s application for leave to appeal against the decision of the High Court and the Court of Appeal on the disqualificati...

Former special counsel Robert Mueller emphasised on Wednesday he had not exonerated Donald Trump of obstruction of justice, as the president has claimed, but his long-awaited congressional testimony d...

The United States Department of justice opened a sweeping antitrust investigation of major technology companies and whether their online platforms have hurt competition, suppressed innovation or otherwise harmed consumers.

PETALING JAYA: MCA questions if there is a conflict of interest in Public Accounts Committee (PAC) deputy chairman Wong Kah Woh accepting the chairmanship of The Sustainable Energy Development Authority (Seda).

KUALA LUMPUR, July 22 — A Dewan Negara Select Committee will be set up soon in an effort to strengthen the parliamentary institution, said chairman of the Senate Reform Working Committee (JKRDN), Se...

PARLIAMENT | The Dewan Negara will follow in the footsteps of the Dewan Rakyat, where a motion will be tabled in the House to compel all senators, both government and opposition, to declare their asse...

Just a day after the Dewan Rakyat speaker banned words deemed indecorous,proceedings in the House descended into profanity again on Thursday, with twolawmakers exchanging insults.The verbal spat began...

KINIGUIDE | The Independent Police Complaints of Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) Bill 2019 was tabled yesterday in the Dewan Rakyat, and the debate is expected to take place during the next sitting, whe...

A HEATED row erupted on the last day of the Dewan Rakyat meeting with members hearing the words “molest underage girls” and “bangsat (scum)” exchanged.It started when Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim (BN-Arau) asked Speaker Datuk Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof to expunge a question by Pang Hok Liong (PH-Labis).

Facebook endured a second day of criticism from Congress over its plan to create a digital currency as senior House Democrats asked Facebook to scale back the project and threatened legislation that would block big tech companies from getting into banking.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 18 — A commotion broke out momentarily in the Dewan Rakyat this afternoon as the Opposition asked Speaker Datuk Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof to recuse himself from making rulings that c...

Amazon.com Inc was challenged by a top US House lawmaker over whether the online retail giant is harming competition as the biggest tech companies faced their harshest antitrust scrutiny in years on Capitol Hill.

KUALA LUMPUR: History was created in the Dewan Rakyat yesterday as lawmakers from both sides of the divide unanimously supported a constitutional amendment bill that paves the way for 18-year-old Mala...

KUALA LUMPUR: The unanimous amendment to the Federal Constitution is a historic moment reflecting total bipartisanship from leaders across the political divide, says Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 16 — Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was delighted by the overwhelming bipartisan support in the Dewan Rakyat today for proposed amendments to the Federal Constitution to l...

US technology giants are headed for their biggest antitrust showdown with Congress in 20 years as lawmakers and regulators demand to know whether companies like Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook Inc use their dominance to squelch innovation.

Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad today tabled the constitutional amendmentbill to lower the voting age to 18 for its second reading at the Dewan Rakyat.In hisspeech, he urged the House, especially o...

KUALA LUMPUR: Lim Guan Eng says he is ready to fight the Opposition who want him referred to the Rights and Privileges Committee for supposedly misleading the Dewan Rakyat on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) refund issue.

The Trump administration on Monday unveiled a new rule to bar almost all immigrants from applying for asylum at the southern border, requiring them to first pursue safe haven in a third country throug...

Kuala Lumpur: The Opposition has brought a motion to refer Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng to the Rights and Privileges Committee for misleading the House on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) refund fiasco.

The Opposition on Monday brought a motion to refer Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng to the Rights and Privileges Committee for misleading the House on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) refund issue.Last A...

KUALA LUMPUR: The police must issue a statement after the Public Accounts Committee had cleared the former Barisan Nasional government of “robbing” some RM18bil in GST refund claims, says Umno’s Khairy Jamaluddin.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Opposition has brought a motion to refer Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng to the Rights and Privileges Committee for misleading the House on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) refund issue.

KUALA LUMPUR: The report on the "missing" RM19.4bil Goods and Services Tax (GST) credit refund will be tabled a day earlier in Parliament to avoid any further misconception on the issue, says Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Datuk Dr Noraini Ahmad.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 11 — Putrajaya will be looking into whether Koperasi Jayadiri Malaysia Berhad (Kojadi) received other funds from the Treasury under the Najib administration after the MCA public-l...

Ayer Hitam MP and MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong said that techniques used by Kota Melaka MP Khoo Poay Tiong to prevent him from posing a question to the Transport Minister in Dewan Rakyat o...

NEW YORK, July 10 — The S&P 500 surged past 3,000 points for the first time today in early trading following congressional testimony from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell that pointed to a pos...

PARLIAMENT | Transport Minister Anthony Loke questioning why PAS did not quiz the previous BN government about local involvement in the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project led to an uproar today in th...

KUALA LUMPUR: Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS), along with an independent MP from Sabah, has given its nod to lower the voting age to 18, boosting the chances of the Pakatan Harapan government’s bid to amend Article 119 of the Federal Constitution to enable the move.Pakatan, which has 139 seats in the House, needs nine more votes to meet the 148 required for a two-thirds majority to amend the Federal Constitution. There are 222 seats in the Dewan Rakyat.

THE Pakatan Harapan government could be branded as anti-rural voters if it does not want to allow for automatic registration of voters in its Bill to amend the Constitution to lower the voting age to 18.